Maradona Rebello plays a cross-dressing Sexually-confused star in Pankh

Maradona goes nude (in front of a woman old enough to be his mom), kisses (a man) and takes up smoking for first film

But the shy young actor isn't flattered. "With due respects to the gay community, I'm not gay. And I do not

play a gay in the film." He has stripped to his birthday suit in front of a woman old enough to be his mother, has been force-kissed by a man and was forced to take up chain-smoking... all for his first film.

Totally zapped

The 20-year old says, "When I heard the part, I was zapped but hooked. I am a normal heterosexual and am dating a girl. I had to play a character who was made to wear girl's clothes as a child, and who is so screwed in the head that he can't tell the difference between the heart and the bed. I was worried about what my parents would say, but they were fully supportive."

Maradona's dad was a sports manager and named himafter the footballer. "I was born in 1986 when the football World Cup was on. So Maradona, I became."

About the nude scene Maradona says, "I was briefed that I'd have to be completely naked so many times by the director and had gone through it so many times in my head that by the time we filmed it, it felt I was doing something quite familiar."

Lilette is with Maradona in the nude sequence. Bipasha is not. As for the supposed lip- lock, Maradona sighs, "There is no liplock. A drunken man in the film forces a kiss on me and I'm repulsed. How will audiences react to such an unusual part and film? It's all about the presentation. No sleaze, thank you."

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